Sienna Speaks

Updated Thursday November 25, 9.11am: After Sienna Miller gave evidence in the Leveson Enquiry in to press intrusion yesterday morning, the actress and Vogue cover girl headed straight to Paris for the Lancel Celebrates 135 Years Of French Legerete event, which she hosted last night. Although Miller herself seems to be moving on, this morning's papers are full of the evidence she gave yesterday, including one quote, reported in the Times.

"There was a very sick child that I was playing with in the corner of the room, who was pretending to shoot me and I was pretending to die," she told the enquiry. "The Mirror cut the boy out of the photo and said I was drunk...The fact they knew they would be sued and have to pay damages was not really enough of a deterrent."

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"I was relentlessly pursued by about 10 to 15 men, almost daily or pretty much - anything from being spat at and verbally abused to," she told a court. "I think the incentive is to get a strong a reaction as possible. They seem to go to any lengths to upset you which is really difficult to deal with."

The model and actress questioned why possessing a camera made it legal for people of men to follow her.

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"I would often find myself at midnight running down a dark street with 10 big men chasing me," she recalled. "The fact that they had a camera in their hands meant that that was legal, but if you take away the cameras what have you got? You've got a pack of men chasing a woman and obviously that's a very intimidating situation to be in."

Miller, one of the most high-profile victims of phone hacking, reiterated how the News of the World's interception of her voicemail messages drove her to family accusations -after the disclosures left her in a state of "complete paranoia and anxiety".

"The effect that it had on my life was really damaging to me and to my family and friends," she said. "Nobody could understand how this information was coming out, it was impossible to lead any kind of normal life at that time and that was very difficult for a young girl."

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Updated Wednesday November 24, 9.54am: Sienna Miller will give evidence in court at the Leveson inquiry into press practices today, over her experience of the phone-hacking scandal. The Vogue cover girl will be joined by Harry Potter author JK Rowling and Formula One's Max Mosley, who will all speak out about their respective media intrusion.

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Updated Friday September 23, 9.50am: Sienna Miller has spoken of how she was driven to accusing her family of betraying her, after a number of personal stories were leaked to the press - which she later found out were discovered through the News of the World's phone hacking.

"I sat down in a room with my mother, my best friend, my sister, my boyfriend and said 'someone in this room is lying and selling stories and one of you has got to admit it,'" she told the Independent.

When asked why she brought the case to court she said, "There was no consideration for you as a human being. You were successful, you were making money, therefore you deserved it and it was a very medieval way of behaving."

Updated Thursday July 7, 4.30pm: The News of the World has closed, following increasingly damaging phone hacking allegations. The NOTW hacked into the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and a parent of one of the Soham murder victims, as well as relatives of military killed in Afghanistan.

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"The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account," deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation and chairman of News International, James Murdoch told staff. "But it failed to when it came to itself. Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued."

Updated Wednesday June 8, 9.34am: The News of the World has offered Sienna Miller an official apology after admitting to phone hacking, reports the Guardian.

Michael Silverleaf, a lawyer for News Group International - the company that owns the tabloid paper - said its client offered its "sincere apologies" to Miller for "the distress caused to her by accessing of her voicemail messages, the publication of the private information in the articles and the related harassment she suffered as a consequence", before adding that NGI "acknowledges that the information should never have been obtained in the manner it was, the private information should never have been published and that the first defendant [NGN] has accepted responsibility for misuse of private information, breach of confidence and harassment".

Updated Friday May 13, 2.45pm: Sienna Miller has accepted £100,000 compensation from the News of the World, after it accepted unconditional responsibility for intercepting the actress' voicemail and publishing the obtained personal information in its Sunday paper. Miller's legal fees will also be reimbursed, reports the Financial Times.

Updated Monday April 11, 10.04am: Sienna Miller has rejected an apology from the News of the World and has told the newspaper it must make a "full disclosure" over phone hacking allegations, the Metro reports today. "Her primary concern is to discover the whole truth and for all those responsible to be held to account," her lawyer Mark Thomson said. A lawyer representing other alleged victims said up to 7,000 people may have had their phones hacked.

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Updated Wednesday April 6, 9.47am: Sienna Miller has won a high court order meaning Vodafone has to hand over call data relating to a phone hacking incident. According to the Guardian, the mobile phone company has agreed to reveal who dialled Miller's voicemail number, and that of her publicist Ciara Parkes, in an alleged attempt to access their messages.

Updated Thursday January 6, 10.23am: Sienna Miller is suing News Group Newspapers, publisher of the News of the World, amid reports that mobile phones belonging to the actress and her partner Jude Law have been hacked.

"A serious allegation has been made about the conduct of a member of the News of the World staff," the paper told the Guardian today. "We have followed our internal procedures and we can confirm that this person was suspended from active duties just before Christmas." Reports suggest the alleged incident took place in 2005.

Edmondson was also named late last year in a separate phone-hacking case brought by Nicola Phillips, former assistant to the PR agent Max Clifford. The case is still on-going.